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HamsterHookah

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  1. This is us too. All the adults in our family can easily afford anything they want or need so it became a pretty pointless exercise.
  2. I saw a headline earlier this morning about Chapo's son arrested. I am assuming he was commanding via proxy his old man?
  3. I read this and feel seen and validated. I spent a decade flying out Sunday night or Monday AM and flying home Thursday. Still getting used to life in the home office and it feels like a trap sometimes. Good luck with your new gig and territory! The good news is you have a good job, the bad news is it won't be an easier selling to the G2K in 2023 than it was in 2022.
  4. Wasn't that a big part of the Serial Adan Syned guy's case (who just got exonerated)? Cell phone pings and the accuracy or geofencing accuracy? That's an interesting point regardless.
  5. It's actually very well known to most people with high-speed internet and born past 1980.
  6. Exactly this. This is what happens when you can't win elections and have the slimmest of majorities. Elections have consequences. It's beyond obvious the 20 Republicans are wielding their power and will NOT relent (and really, why would they unless they got a sweetheart deal which won't happen)-- the most obvious answer here is McCarthy simply isn't going to work here. Which is hilarious because he is vainglorious and wants nothing more than the title. What I am confused about is why the GOP doesn't cut bait and as you say, go deeper to the right and find a Speaker.
  7. Gretchen- stop trying to make McCarthy Happen. It's not going to happen!
  8. The Cowboys are guaranteed to lose in second round of playoffs if not even the wildcard game. That much I'm convinced of based off of what I've seen of this team this year. The real pleasure for me as a Cowboy fan is going to be the Eagles losing in first game of the playoffs, which I'm also convinced of based off what I've seen and know of Hurts injury.
  9. @wildcat09 actually, I might be thinking of captainant and not you. I am sorry for conflating you two and making inferences on bad data.
  10. I just think you are staunchly anti-business (and never was that so clear to me than in the Southwest thread when you gave a point of view that was, at best, wildly ignorant of what it means to operate a business outside of your pure play technical background), and that it feels like you will take any position that puts business in a bad light-- real or imagined. And with that enemy of enemy is my friend mentality, you find yourself coming across as a sympathizer to thieves of travel sized shampoo and cheap mascara and about to expire pringles.
  11. Topical because I was having a debate with my son on who the weakest link of the Avengers was and he was trying to defend Hawkeye as not being just a guy who can shoot a bow and arrow really well. Well, I don't think anyone other than Black Widow could be hurt by a snowplow. I guess I get to win that argument.
  12. Luka on DudePerfect Youtube channel was must see TV for any Luka fans IMO.
  13. I see. It was all a conspiracy by the corporations and it was based on the lies about retail theft and they are now coming clean. Makes sense.
  14. https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/local/smith-county-inmate-arrested-after-escaping-jail-transport-van/501-61ddeb56-1c41-4340-9898-3afa4dc603db They caught him again. Of course, Tyler, Texas.
  15. Has anyone ever explained how that weird haircut was supposed to be cool or attractive?
  16. Lying feels like too aggressive a word here. Did the CFO of a major organization just make up out of thin blue air a rash of retail theft? Was there not many viral videos at the time and a bit of a trend for that petty theft that could reasonably, or unreasonably as you see it, stoke some fear around shrink and the impact of revenue? Especially for someone whose role is to manage the financial health of the organization? Lying would look like something different. And I don't think you'd have this statement from the earnings call if it was a lie. It was more of "the data showed X and we thought Y-- turns out we over-rotated and it was really Z which was much lower than Y, so our preventative measures and costs can be reduced." That's just standard feedback looping in business via trial and error and hypothesis and experiment from where I sit...
  17. Just watched a couple of episodes of King of the Hill. For me this was the GOAT show and I used to watch it nightly on Adult Swim 10 or 15 years ago. I hyped it up and got the kids excited and the episodes were just kinda meh. It was sad and disappointing. To be fair, the episodes were later seasons with Lucky.
  18. I don't know-- I'm kinda thinking we buried Roflebox too soon. Here is my judge scorecard: Round 1: Goes to BornToRun with vicious left hooks that made him stumble into the ropes, aided by a solid body shot by VRhorn Round 2: Goes to Roflbox came out with spirited defense and had a counter of his own to both the left hooks and body shots. Round 3: Bruno?
  19. I'm not saying you are, and you certainly haven't said you are so I don't want to put words in your mouth, but why does it FEEL to me like you are on the side of thieves and petty theft? Can't being against the theft of property and goods be at least one thing that civilized humanity and modern man have in common?
  20. What I've learned in 9 pages: Nobody likes to say "BAU" more than Nicole.
  21. AWS & SFDC the latest to announce huge cuts. I feel bad for anyone in legacy tech and legacy SaaS sales who were affected; seems like a ton of huge companies are dispensing with folks lately.
  22. Read this today: Public Schools lost more than 1 Million students during pandemic. School districts across the country are shuttering buildings in response to public schools losing more than a million students over the past few years. Data from the U.S. Education Department shows a drop of around 3% in public school enrollment from fall 2019-2020. At the same time, charter school enrollment was up 7%, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Among the factors prompting the changes since COVID are an increase in home schooling, more families utilizing private and charter education, and an overall decline in birth rates. https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-schools-lost-more-than-one-million-students-during-pandemic-11672881798 -- We'd already chosen to do private school pre-pandemic, but the swelling of private schools we are in and around us and the year(s) long waitlists is very noticeable and causing it's own strain. In a lot of ways the private schools are regressing to some of the negatives of public schools (bigger classrooms, suboptimal teacher:student ratio, etc.)
  23. I love my AMEX's and I actually also have a Discover card somewhere. I keep a credit card in my phone case for times I leave my wallet or otherwise need to be separated from my wallet but have an ability to purchase something in an emergency, it's pragmatic for it to be a Visa/MC because in 2023 there are still a lot of businesses (mostly small businesses) who will not take AMEX. My cleaners off the top of my head and the Thai food place I love.
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